Have you ever noticed that you don’t have any problems getting out of bed on days that you have off? You are cheerful, happy and ready to get your day started. But when a working day comes around, you’re pulling your hair out just to spark some kind of motivation to get out of bed. Is that you?

• Do you find yourself yelling at the kids for no reason?
• Are you always frustrated?
• Are you unhappy with your life?
• Are you envious of other people’s lives?
• Have you fantasized about being your own boss?

Worst of all. This is the one that’s going to make you really mad when you stop and think about it. On your days off, are you so busy catching up on chores, finishing the laundry, running errands, housework, repairs, or sitting at an auto shop getting that much need oil change because of the wear and tear on your car. Is catching up turning into a part-time job because all your energy during the week is spent on pleasing your boss?

I need a handkerchief to wipe the beads of sweat from my forehead. I just thought about what would have happened if I would have allowed myself to be lulled into false security and threatened by fear.

I wouldn’t be making six-figures a year and I wouldn’t have been self-employed for the last eight years with the freedom to take vacations whenever I wanted.

When I first stepped out on the faith of my own abilities, there was no straight to the point guide that told me, without running around in circles, how to work from home and escape and impending mid-life crisis that would have left me crying “where did I go wrong in my life?” into the palm of my hands.

I knew I wasn’t the only one who went through this phase in my life. I defeated the fear and developed confidence in my abilities. I also conquered the other obstacle facing people who want to work at home…

Finding the information to make it happen and avoiding the scams. There was no comprehensive guide for me, so I fell prey to some of the scams. That’s why I created this guide.

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There is no easy answer to this question. But let’s examine the different drivers at play.

On one hand, we have a mortgage market that’s become a lot tighter. This will make it increasingly harder for people to get mortgages. Traditionally, borrowing against your home has been one of the most common ways of funding a new businesses (according to a survey conducted by the Federation of Small Business 25% of start ups use bank loans as their main source of funding, while 49% use bank overdrafts). So these facts would indicate that the credit crunch will have a knock-on effect on small businesses by affecting entrepreneurs’ ability to raise funding.

Equally, a lot of people who are already on the property ladder will find that their equity is being squeezed by the drop in house prices, so again making it harder to gear up.

On top of this, banks have gone into saving mode, switching from looking aggressively for borrowers to looking for lenders. So even with property to secure against, chances are that people will generally face it more difficulty to get a bank loan.

On the other end of the food chain, larger businesses, who are already geared up may find it harder to service their debt especially if consumer spending is affected (of which there are no clear signs as yet). Consumer spending accounts for about 70% of the GDP so if that goes down… it pretty much all goes down.

With the above in mind, the number of business startup is the next year is estimated, by some, to drop. Barclays bank estimates that new business formations will drop from 420,000 a year for the past three years to about 360,000 next year.

I don’t share that view. Seemingly paradoxically I believe that the above will actually lead to a growth of the small business sector. The small business sector has always been the most resilient in the economy, benefiting from the lack of a cumbersome fixed cost base that burdens large businesses and with little or no debt to service.

There is the question of course of ‘how do we finance a small business without a buoyant property market to piggy-back on’? Well considering that over the past three years, despite abundance of cheap credit, 40% of start-ups (according to the FSB survey 2006) used own savings and retained profits to part-finance their growth, one can argue that that figure will increase in times when credit is tighter and when people are also nervous about their employment prospects.

Added to this is that fact that entrepreneurs today have more tools at their disposal to help them ‘boot-strap’ their venture than any other time in modern business history. Technology of course is the underpinning force behind this, enabling people to work remotely even deploying virtual teams without having to incur the traditional set-up and costs. Sites like ours – www.peopleperhour.com, we’d like to think, are making a distinct positive contribution to that.

Personally, I think the problems of the current financial crisis can be attributed to one key fundamental factor that, unfortunately, is an innate human trait: greed. The past number of years has seen an excess liquidity fuelled by cheap credit, which has led to a frenzy of over-spending and over-exposure. What has this led to? Large organizations eating up more than the can chew. Like Northern Rock.

This downturn will be a smack on the face to those who have got too greedy. And those will be naturally the ones at the top end of the food chain. As people become more nervous of the situation and their job security in those organizations, I think more people will resort to embarking on their postponed hidden desires to branch out on their own.

After all there something uniquely beautiful and paradoxically uplifting about a bleak economic climate: there’s less to lose!

Recognizing that healthcare costs have become unmanageable for many entrepreneurs, Sen. McCain said, if elected, his administration would introduce healthcare reform that would provide hardworking Americans more options and expand portability of coverage.

Sen. Obama, who was invited to speak at the Summit but did not attend, responded to Sen. McCain’s remarks by reiterating that small businesses need more options to access quality, affordable healthcare coverage. We also know both candidates recognize that implementing health information technology and addressing an inequitable tax structure should play a part in any comprehensive reform package.

Over the past few weeks, it’s been encouraging to see the candidates discuss the issues facing the small business, especially the rising cost of healthcare. But they — and all of our country’s leaders — must realize that entrepreneurs deserve more than just discussions. Because the truth is, these job creators, those on the front lines of the healthcare crisis, are the voters who will be electing the next president, and they are demanding the next administration and Congress implement real change that makes healthcare more affordable for working Americans.

According to a recent NFIB survey, 81 percent of small business owners and 52 percent of employees do not feel the presidential candidates are adequately addressing issues that are important to them, specifically healthcare. In fact, nearly three-quarters of those polled say fixing healthcare should be a top priority for the next president, and nearly 80 percent agree that “it is important to me to vote for a presidential candidate whose healthcare plan makes sense for small business.”

A similar survey showed that the small business community comprised 43 percent of U.S. registered voters and nearly 32 percent of the electorate on Super Tuesday. These numbers prove that small business is a powerful, motivated group in a position to demand substantial solutions to the healthcare crisis from their candidates.

Both candidates are focused on reforming our ailing healthcare system and have begun to recognize that small business must be considered in any proposed legislation. The National Small Business Summit may have ended, but small business’ commitment to achieving quality, affordable healthcare has not.

We’re at the beginning of long and productive discussions with both candidates to ensure the needs of small businesses remain at the forefront of the healthcare debate. Because we know that solutions to America’s healthcare crisis must start with small businesses, the backbone of the U.S. economy. When healthcare is fixed for small business, it will be fixed for America.

A ‘hit or miss’ work schedule…or rather, the lack of any work schedule at all, simply will not work. Time is of the Essence! YOUR time!

If you’re not about getting your work done, you’ll either spend too much time working or your business will fail. You’ve got to set up a work schedule for yourself and you’ve got to stick to it. You can choose your own hours…but you can’t skip work and expect your business to grow.

When you work for someone else, you have set working hours. You’re expected to do work during those hours and get done what you need to get done. You can’t leave work in the middle of your time and you definitely can’t have friends and family stopping by to chat.

When you have a work at home job or business you need that same kind of structure. You need to set regular working hours. Working at home gives you the freedom to choose your own hours….but you have to set those hours and work them!

If you start keeping regular hours, your friends and family will have to go through some adjustment. Your mother wouldn’t dream of calling you at your real job and asking you to run some errands. Your best friend wouldn’t come into your workplace and sit down, expecting to chat for two hours.

It’s a strange but true fact that these people who respect your “real” job out of the home can misunderstand your new working at home status. That very same mother and that very same best friend will walk all over your work time at home. Why? Because you’re at home and they think you’re available.

People have a hard time seeing working at home as a “real job.” Your family, friends and spouse will assume that you have all the time in the world now that you’re “not working.”

How can you let them know that this business is a real business? By setting a schedule and sticking to it. Unless you see your work at home job as a REAL job with REAL hours, your time will be eaten away by your friends, your family and even yourself.

Make a schedule for your work and start sticking to it. Let your friends and family know when your hours will be. You don’t need to be rude about it, just to the point. Tell them “I will be working from 9 am to 3 pm Mondays through Fridays. On those days during those hours, I’m not available for errands, personal phone calls or company visiting.”

The most important part is following through. Make sure you stick to your own schedule – you’ll be able to get to your work done and you’ll garner the respect of your friends and family.

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2 Best Reasons To Start a Work At Home Business

1) Business owners build equity in their business. Work at home job holders just get a weekly paycheck.

If you take a work at home job, you’ll need to continue working, hour by hour, as long as you want the money to come in. When you finally quit your work at home job, the paychecks will stop. If you can start a work at home business, you’ll not only have a steady income once it is up and running, but you’ll have the option to sell your business when the day comes that you no longer want to run it.

Some people launch and grow their businesses with the goal of selling them later; others just get their business started and then decide, say, five years later that they want to get out. Either way works. But getting $150,000 for your business after five years of building it beats the pants off just calling your boss and giving two weeks notice. No employer gives a retirement bonus like that!

2) Business owners can hire people. Work at home employees have to do it all themselves.

As a business owner you can do whatever you like – so long as its profitable. In many cases your business will actually do better the less you work in it, and the more you work on it. So your real job as the boss is to create systems for getting things done, complete with bullter-proof instructions so people can practically train themselves. As soon as each business system is created and running smoothly, the boss (you!) finds someone to follow the directions. Then that new hire does the job you used to do, and you get to either take a break or continue building the company and its profits.

Two Reasons To Just Get A Work At Home Job

1) Starting a Business is Risky.

This is the big factor. Most businesses fail. There are things you can do to radically improve your business’s chances of success (like writing a detailed, real-world business plan and interviewing 3-5 business owners in the same industry you want to go into), but no business plan is perfect. By sticking with a simple work at home job, you can rely on that paycheck and leave how your employer is going to fund that weekly paycheck to someone else.

2) Owning A Business is More Work.

Despite the view that the boss taking it easy in his office while his employees slave away, the business owner may work harder than anyone. The employees, after all, get to go home. The boss may need to keep working until after 10. There’s no passing the buck if you’re the owner – you must either hire somebody to deal with it, or deal with it yourself.

This is the flip side of the benefit of not having to do all the work – yes, you can delegate it all out, but there’s an unbelievable amount of work to do, and most of it all needs to be done all at once. If you aren’t someone who’s comfortable “changing gears” or “wearing many hats”, you either need a flawless business plan (and the will and money to execute it), or realize that working at home as an employee might best for you. As I’ve mentioned, having a business has more benefits, but if getting to those benefits risks you getting a heart attack, stick with a work at home job.

Many work from home online webmasters do not know how to write source code so a tool that comes in very handy is a writer such as the free NVU. With NVU the webmaster can just write in plain text in the normal window and while that is being done the source code is automatically being written in another window called source.

This can be used to write page content for a web page, email campaign, articles or even ads that require source code to make links, names, and images clickable. The code is also what creates the spaces between paragraphs, font sizes, colors, and information that is only seen by the search engines when they crawl your site.

The webmaster can write the content directly into NVU or another tool such as word processor programs like Open Office, Microsoft Works, or Note Tab Light can be used then just copy and paste the content into NVU and instantly get your source code. Which ever way the webmaster feels more comfortable using in their work from home online business will work just fine.

Once the webmaster has finished creating the page for his website then the free tool called FileZilla Client is used to transfer the data to the file manager of the website on the sites server to make it live on the web. Tools like FileZilla are imperative to a webmaster in a work from home online business since that is the only way to transfer data from one’s PC to the sites file manager on the server.

For the articles that are written this way they are now ready to be submitted to the article directories by using the copy and paste method. The same method can be used to insert articles or messages into the webmasters auto-responder as well. At anytime that a page from your website needs changes made just use FileZilla to down load that page from your servers file manger to your PC, make the changes in NVU and then use FileZilla to upload the page back to your site.

The auto-responder is one of the most important tools that a webmaster will use in a work from home online business. Auto-responders do have a monthly fee, however you can find them at a variety of monthly fees depending on just how involved you need it to be. Most auto-responder suppliers base their prices on the size of your list, the number of messages you can send each month and the number of special broadcasts that you want to send out each month. All of which will depend on how new your work from home online business is.

The auto-responder is the webmasters work-horse since it works twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. In other words it never stops working. No matter how many different places that you have your lead capture page being exposed on the web it will always send the prospects sign-up information back to your auto-responder and your preloaded messages will be sent to them, which is building your list while you work on other things, sleep, or even take a day off. This one tool is the webmasters totally auto pilot work force once you load your messages. Most work from home online business owners try to set-up at least six months to a year of follow-up messages spaced about three to four days apart. This way they only need to do behind the scenes work for any special broadcasts they wish to send out like special deals or new training that they come up with.

In closing one can see how important just these few tools are to a webmaster that is operating a work from home online business. The great thing about these few are they are all free to down load and use except for the auto-responder which if a webmaster shops around they can find them at very reasonable prices. Just be sure to do your research of the company offering the auto-responder to be sure they deliver what they promise and that they have happy satisfied clients.

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